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Originally Posted by lisarea
If I were a shady conman, I would definitely pick a target that was young, inexperienced, arrogant, and clearly lacking in moral grounding, and Zuck was nothing if not that. (Still is, except the young part.)
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Frankly if we're just conjecturing with no evidence here, Zynga would be reasonable to drag into this as it was created by some greyhat nerds, one of which had multiple struggling or failing internet investments and startups. If someone with some money or power to throw around did exist in facebook, it probably didn't take much persuasion to get Zynga as a main facebook games developer. Farmville had something like 80 million users a year or two after launch, who where now inherently facebook users as well and right around the same time as facebook started getting big and that was just one of their games at the time.
It also could be that facebook just got lucky with an exclusive deal that drove up their market share a ton, while not managing to do something stupid to mess it up.